Jane Chastain
Jane Chastain (born 1943) is a former nationally-known sports announcer and current conservative political writer and commentator.
Chastain's early television work included WAGA-TV in Atlanta, where she began predicting the results of college football games with a high successs rate. She made an appearance (as Mrs. Jane Thomas) on the CBS TV quiz show What's My Line? on October 25, 1964.
In 1967 she was hired by Miami TV station WTVJ's news anchor Ralph Renick, in what is reported as the first female sportscaster in America. During 1973, she produced filmed capsule segments about sports, a series collectively called The Jane Chastain Show. These short segments were made available to other American television outlets.
CBS hired her in 1974 to provide commentary for various televised sports events. During the CBS National Football League telecast of a game on October 13, 1974, she became the first female NFL announcer, brought in as a commentator alongside Don Criqui and Irv Cross.
She was used on occasional NFL broadcasts the rest of the 1974 season, and also worked the college Sun Bowl Game that season. She also worked some CBS National Basketball Association telecasts.
During the 1980s, Chastain began turning her attention toward politics. She now lives in California, and writes for conservative-leaning online publications such as WorldNetDaily, and has written several books about politics.
She was married to John Roger Chastain in 1968.
External links
- IMDB entry
- People Magazine article from 1974
- Village Voice article from 2001
- Political commentary website
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